Alter Table Auto_Increment

From: Carlos Mennens <carlos(dot)mennens(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Alter Table Auto_Increment
Date: 2010-09-20 13:53:34
Message-ID: AANLkTinR9t3aYnTzLK=uzW3Gx02aQY8RGkL2DbFWoQTV@mail.gmail.com
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I have a table in my database and would like to modify the one column
that is already configured to be the PRIMARY KEY but I forgot to set
it for AUTO_INCREMENT. For some reason I can't find what the proper
command would be in the documentation and my commands from MySQL don't
appear to work properly in PostgreSQL:

sun=# \d blades
Table "public.blades"
Column | Type | Modifiers
----------+-----------------------+-----------
id | integer | not null
ilom_ip | character varying(15) |
host_os | character varying(50) |
host_ip | character varying(15) |
hostname | character varying(50) |
serial | character varying(30) |
gfe | character varying(10) |
admin | character varying(50) |
Indexes:
"blades_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id)

My command is not working so I don't know what I am doing wrong:

sun=# ALTER TABLE blades MODIFY int AUTO_INCREMENT;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "MODIFY"
LINE 1: ALTER TABLE blades MODIFY int AUTO_INCREMENT;

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